Kinshasa Quotes

#1. Don't you wonder sometimes," sang Bowie all the way to Kinshasa, "about sound and vision?

Aleksandar Hemon

#2. Don't tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we're too poor to associate with.

Paul Beatty

#3. I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

Cynthia McKinney

#4. Like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.

Mark Slouka

#5. All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me.

J.I. Packer

#6. really great painting is fluid enough to work its way into the mind and heart through all kinds of different angles, in ways that are unique and very particular.

Donna Tartt

#7. Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.

Garrison Keillor

#8. I'm not interested in whether I'm better than you; only whether I'm better than yesterday.

Mike Ormsby

#9. Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Well, do you want her help or not? Rylan asked impatiently. And then Damian finally spoke. Rylan, I demand you apologize to Alexa at once. That is no way to talk to my fiancee.
Your what? In his shock, Rylan didn't even attempt to hide the half horror, half jealousy on his face or in his voice.

Sara B. Larson

#11. She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?

Stacy Hawkins Adams

#12. If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.

George Herbert

#13. I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries ... like I do.

Henry Rollins

#14. I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#15. When darkness settles over the city two prongs of light suddenly reach high up into the night sky. The searchlights remain fixed, two bright smoking fingers lighting up the underside of clouds and providing a canopy of light over the city. She feels enchantment forging a ring around the moment.

Glenn Haybittle

#16. But tell me truly, milovidnost, had I asked you to elope with me that night, would you not have followed me to the ends of the earth? (Jack)
I wouldn't have followed you to the end of the corridor. (Lorelei)

Kinley MacGregor

#17. I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

Jordana Brewster

#18. And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.

Terry Zwigoff